Shloka 59
Nāgendra–Brāhmaṇa Saṃvāda: Praśna-vidhi and Dharmic Approach on the Gomatī Riverbank
स्थापयित्वा हयशिर उदक्पूर्वे महोदथौ । वेदानामालयं चापि बभूवाश्वशिरास्तत:,भगवानने महासागरके पूर्वोत्तरभागमें वेदोंके आश्रयभूत अपने हयग्रीव रूपकी स्थापना करके पुनः पूर्वरूप धारण कर लिया। तबसे भगवान् हयग्रीव वहीं रहने लगे
sthāpayitvā hayaśira udakpūrve mahodadhau | vedānām ālayaṃ cāpi babhūvāśvaśirās tataḥ ||
Vaiśaṃpāyana said: Having established his Horse-headed form in the great ocean to the east—making it also the abode and refuge of the Vedas—Bhagavān Aśvaśiras then resumed his former form. From that time onward, the Lord Hayagrīva is said to dwell there, as the guardian-seat of sacred knowledge.
वैशग्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Sacred knowledge (the Vedas) is portrayed as needing protection and a rightful ‘abode’; the Lord assumes a specific form (Hayagrīva) to safeguard and re-establish the foundations of dharma through the preservation of revelation.
The narrator states that the Lord installs his horse-headed manifestation in the eastern great ocean as the seat of the Vedas, then returns to his prior form; thereafter Hayagrīva is understood to remain there as the enduring guardian of the Vedas.